matters weight as it relates to force

I have been doing smart drugs lately and I just had a thought. Do heavier elements absorb more force (the force of light, sound,etc)?

 

Pretty cool idea, but do you mean "heavier" in terms of the number of neutrons (as pertaining to individual atoms of an element), or actual weight (gravitational attraction to the Earth)?
Well, let's try some actual examples here; my first thought was lead because of the properties that make it notable: it has a high weight-to-matter ratio, and is one of the few elements I can think of that is used to block radiation (whether it does this by
absorbing* or reflecting it, I'm not sure of). It's number is 82, it's pretty far up on the list of heavier elements by neutrons.

Now, if you mean force in the physics sense, it does take more force to displace a book than it would a feather, but in terms of atoms, I have no idea. As for absorption of force-energy, nothing can actually "absorb" energy unless it converts it to potential energy; maybe you mean reflect/disperse? I'm sure someone here knows more than I do.

 

i meant actual weight. Doesn't heat count as potential force? for example wouldn't lead at least heat up a little when hit by radiation? What about force making things vibrate at imperceptible levels, isn't that stored force?

 

Well, not quiteee
Heat is pretty much energy, or a way of giving off energy, just as radiation is. Light is also a way of giving off energy; for example, when burning a log, you release the (potential) energy of the log in the forms of heat and light energy. You could say that heat is the result of releasing potential energy from an object, but to do so also requires energy. I'm actually not sure if lead would heat up, I mean, I know lead can become hot, all things can, but it's relatively non-heat-conductive in comparison with certain things that retain their heat well. Vibrating at imperceptible levels, welllllll; to vibrate at any level requires energy of some sort (as the action of vibrating would release energy into the environment), I'm not sure if there is any particular object that would hold a relatively large amount of stored energy but only vibrate imperceptibly. Most "stored forces" require energy to release. If you're referring to atoms themselves vibrating, that could be the result of "weak nuclear force" or one of the four forces (didn't study well for that chapter). Still, those are good questions for a Physics teacher if you're in HS right now.

 

Im in college so I'll direct that to a physics teacher. Thanks for the input.

 

Even better, I'm sure he/she'd have some better ideas on this than me,
np!

 

a force is something that accelerates a body, the strength of that acceleration depending on the amount of mass being accelerated by the force. there are four forces, the gravitational force, the electromagnetic force, the strong nuclear force (that which holds nucleons together) and the weak nuclear force (that which causes things like beta decay) a force always has base units kilogram meters per seconds squared energy is different, energy is a force applied over a distance, therefore its base units is always kilogram meters squared per seconds squared... or kgm2s-2 if you go a certain distance above the earths surface, you have gravitational potential energy, the force of the earths gravitational pull is acting on you all the time, though there is no change in potential energy unless you actually fall through it. force times distance = work done (energy) light energy is given by an equation, each photon has energy in joules E = hf where h is the planck constant, and f is the frequency of that photon. remember photons act like waves which means they have wavelengths and frequencies, the speed of a wave v is equal to the product of its wavelength and its frequency (ie the time it takes to move through one wavelength and the distance of that wavelength)... and therefore the two products are inversely proportional. thats why light with a very small wavelength has more energy than one with a larger wavelength. but yeah i think yous guys get the picture